Abstract: A method and a device, including a pedal-operated vehicle. The method includes detecting a particular riding situation and consequently operating the auxiliary drive unit situated on the vehicle, longer than in a normal riding situation, without the driver correspondingly detecting the angular motion of the pedals.

Abstract: A vehicular system includes a body panel having an aperture and a radar unit at least partially aligned with the aperture. The radar unit includes a housing encapsulating a printed circuit board operable to generate radar waves. The housing includes a first wall through which the radar waves are directed. The first wall of the housing is visible within the aperture and the body panel does not extend across the first wall.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for classifying whether an input signal, which comprises image and/or audio data, is anomalous or not with respect to a second data distribution using an anomaly classifier. The method includes: providing the input signal to the anomaly classifier; in the anomaly classifier, providing the input signal to a reference detector and a second detector; obtaining a reference value from the reference detector based on the input signal, the reference value characterizing the likelihood of the input signal to belong to a reference data distribution; obtaining a second value from the second detector based on the input signal, the second value characterizing the likelihood of the input signal to belong to the second data distribution; and providing an output signal, which characterizes a classification of the input signal as anomalous or not based on a comparison of the reference value and the second value.

Abstract: A system for determining a distance between a camera and a hitch ball of a vehicle. The system includes a camera configured to be mounted on a vehicle and an electronic processor connected to the camera. The electronic processor is configured to determine a first position and a second position associated with a point on a trailer, determine an angle of rotation between the first position and the second position, and using the first position, the second position, and the angle of rotation, determine a null space of a matrix. In one example, the matrix is A = [ 1 0 0 - cu xo cl x 0 1 0 - cu y ? 0 cl y 0 0 0 cu z ? 0 - cl z 0 0 1 - cu z ? 0 cu z ? 1 ? cu x ? 1 cl x - cos ? ? sin ? ? 1 0 0 ] and the null space of the matrix includes a value of a distance (dl) between the camera and the hitch ball.

Abstract: An integrated electro-hydraulic unit including a hydraulic machine having a shaft configured to rotate about an axis and a cylinder block. The cylinder block includes a distal portion spaced from the axis. The distal portion includes an axial span measured parallel to the axis. An electric machine has a stator and a rotor with an axial span measured parallel to the axis. The axial span of the rotor is larger than the axial span of the distal portion. A drive flange is situated between the distal portion and the rotor to define an interface. The rotor is secured to a rotor-receiving portion of the drive flange, and the distal portion is secured to a cylinder block-receiving portion of the drive flange. The axial span of the distal portion extends outside the axial span of the rotor.

Abstract: An AI system includes an input interface configured to receive input data from at least one user, and a blocker module configured (i) to detect the received input data is an attack input data, (ii) to manipulate output data of the blocker module, and (iii) to send the output data from the blocker module to the at least one user. The AI system further includes an AI module configured to process the input data received by the blocker module and to generate output data corresponding to the input data. The AI system also includes a blocker notification module configured to transmit a notification to the owner of the AI system on detecting an attack input data, and an output interface configured to send the generated output data to the at least one user.

Abstract: A method for operating a vehicle electrical system of a vehicle, configured in an architecture in which at least one central vehicle computer is assigned to a computational layer, intermediate control devices are assigned to an intermediate layer, and execution units are assigned to an execution layer. The at least one central vehicle computer contains datasets of at least the intermediate control devices linked to the relevant central vehicle computer. Each dataset interfaces are described for all execution units which are connected communicatively indirectly or directly via the second communication system with the relevant intermediate control device. In each central vehicle computer, an intermediate application is executed via which, using a relevant dataset, access is configured of applications executed on the relevant central vehicle computer via the relevant intermediate control device to execution units linked thereto.

Abstract: A micromechanical system which includes a movably suspended mass. The micromechanical system includes a damping system, the damping system including a movably suspended damping structure, the damping structure being deflectable by applying a voltage. The damping structure is designed in such a way that a frequency response and/or a damping of the movably suspended mass are/is changeable with the aid of a deflection of the damping structure.

Abstract: A test unit for an actuation device of an electrical apparatus is configured as an ASIC and includes a test circuit configured to generate a voltage test sequence, a memory configured to store a response pattern, and an analysis unit configured to compare the response pattern with a reference pattern.

Abstract: A radar sensor having at least one antenna structure and at least one coupling structure, which is designed to couple substrate waves out of an antenna substrate used as a carrier for the antenna structure and the coupling structure, and to emit them as coupled waves into an emission region. The radar sensor has an absorber which is situated in the emission region in order to absorb the coupled waves.

Abstract: A machine control system including a first data processing device having a first central processing unit, which implements a control agent, the first data processing unit communicating control commands to the machine and receiving process and environmental data from the machine, which contain state information about the state of the machine and/or an environment of the machine. A second data processing device receives the state information from the first data processing device and implements a copy of the control agent. The second data processing device ascertains, with the aid of one or multiple graphics processing units and/or one or multiple tensor processing units, an update of the copy of the control agent by reinforcement learning, using the state information, and communicates the update to the first data processing device.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for determining a position of a first image region in an image corresponding to a second image region in the image. The method comprises: providing the first image region comprising a reference position; providing the image; determining a plurality of signature values for different image positions in the first image region; assigning relative offsets of a plurality of image positions in the first image region to respectively determined signature values; determining a plurality of correspondence signature values to different image positions in the image; determining relative offsets relative to determined correspondence signature values with use of the assignment; calculating target positions by summing the relative offset and corresponding image position; incrementally assigning a weighting value to a calculated target position, thus forming an incremental weighting value; and determining the position of the first image region by finding an extremum in the incremental weighting values.

Abstract: A method for producing a wafer connection between a first and a second wafer. The method includes providing a first and second material for forming a eutectic alloy, providing a first wafer having a receiving structure for a die structure, filling the receiving structure with the first material, providing a second wafer having a die structure, the second material being situated on the die structure, providing a stop structure on the first and/or second wafer, so that when the two wafers are joined, a defined stop is provided, heating the first and second material at least to the eutectic temperature of the eutectic alloy, joining the first and second wafer so that the die structure is at least partly introduced into the receiving structure, the stop structure, the receiving structure, the die structure.

Abstract: A method for operating a processing unit, in which a multiplicity of processes are carried out, which together access a resource according to a predefined resource distribution. The method includes a determination of an instantaneous actual processing time of at least one of the multiplicity of processes during an execution of the at least one of the multiplicity of processes, within which the at least one of the multiplicity of processes is processed; a comparison of the actual processing time with a setpoint processing time assigned to the at least one of the multiplicity of processes and/or with a sum of the assigned setpoint processing time and a processing time extension assigned to the at least one of the multiplicity of processes; and an adaptation of the predefined resource distribution as a function of a result of this comparison.

Abstract: A method for detecting an obstacle in front of a vehicle using a radar sensor. In the method, the radar sensor monitors a monitoring area in front of the vehicle, a classification of an object detected by the radar sensor in the monitoring area being performed, the monitoring area being divided into monitoring subareas and a first classification rule being used for classification for a first monitoring subarea and a second classification rule being used for classification for a second monitoring subarea.

Abstract: A fuel injector assembly includes a valve housing, a valve stem that is disposed in the valve housing, a magnetic coil that surrounds the valve housing and is used to displace the valve stem within the valve housing, and a terminal blade. The terminal blade includes a bus bar that provides an electrical connection between the magnetic coil and an external connector. In addition, the terminal blade includes a clip that is connected to the bus bar at a clip first end and to the valve housing at a clip second end. The clip includes a sacrificial portion that is configured to part, for example by dissolving, when the terminal blade undergoes an overmolding process. As a result of the overmolding process, the clip is separated into multiple, spaced portions.